Honeybot, your man in the middle for automated social engineering

Lauinger, Tobias; Pankakoski, Veikko; Balzarotti, Davide; Kirda, Engin
LEET 2010, 3rd USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats, 27 April, 2010, San Jose, USA

 

 

 

 

 

 

Automated Social Engineering poses a serious information security threat to human communications on the Internet since the attacks can easily scale to a large number of victims. We present a new attack that instruments human conversations for social engineering, or spamming. The detection rate is low, which becomes manifest in link click rates of up to 76.1%. This new attack poses a challenge for detection mechanisms, and user education.


Type:
Conférence
City:
San Jose
Date:
2010-04-27
Department:
Sécurité numérique
Eurecom Ref:
3210
Copyright:
Copyright Usenix. Personal use of this material is permitted. The definitive version of this paper was published in LEET 2010, 3rd USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats, 27 April, 2010, San Jose, USA and is available at :
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